Cybervisions
by rizulait
by rizulait
http://www.sgi.com/Fun/free/gallery.html
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This commercial site is a collection of images created by staff and customers of Silicon Graphics, and serves to advertise the flexibility and capabilities of their workstations. Some good and some dreadful imagery, but excellent quality graphics throughout. Check out the winners of past competitions, and the technical images also.
http://www.rcs.re.it/enos/#eversion
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Visit this suite of home pages to discover more than you ever wanted to know about Enos Venturi, a painter in northern Italy who tells us he learned to paint by copying the Old Masters. Mr.Venturi sells his work (at what are actually very, very good prices) over the 'net, and shares his pride about his children very freely with visitors to his site. Keep practicing, Enos!
http://www.sover.net/~jimrobin/
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"Image Bytes" is billed as a "socio-political art gallery", and is a collection of virtual portfolios of the work of Jim Robinson. Most of the work is pedestrian, (assuming Robinson is 18. If he's 35 it's just tiresome), but in the "Digital/Photocollage" folder there are a number of funny and visitable pieces. The artist has scanned images from popular and not-so-popular publications, and deftly pasted them together, and annotated them with an acidic leftist wit. Paradoxically, the faces of most of the supposedly evil corporate individuals featured in the works have been given, quote, "a digital makeover to protect the innocent."
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/5415
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Virtual home of Georgetown's Fraser Gallery, with a list of the artists in the current, rather unique show, and links to images of many of the pieces in the show. Artist Frida Kahlo painted many extraordinary and sometimes harrowing self-portraits, and this show is a collection of other artists portrayals of her. Works include painting, sculpture, printmaking and collage, and there are artists represented from all over the United States. The show even includes a piece by a second cousin of Kahlo. This virtual visit pales in comparison to a trip to the real thing, but if you just can't make it to DC, surf on over...
cybervisions@visionsmagazine.com.
I surfed the web this month in search of images or myths about heroes. But just what is a hero? What does the word "hero" mean, and where does it come from? Not what you might first think. Herostratus was an arsonist in 385 BC. An arsonist! Apparently he burned down one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Accounts vary, but it was probably the Temple of Athena in Turkey. When they asked him why he did it, Herostratus replied that he wanted "to make his mark in history" and that his greatest desire was for people to remember his name. As part of the punishment for his evil deed, his name was promptly struck from public record and the peoples of Greece forbidden from uttering it, so that it might be lost in the mists of time. I guess it didn't work. You can check out some other hero stuff at these URL's:
This page is one of many in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts' on-line
educational program, and features a "virtual slide show" of world hero
mythologies, including the hero-myths of Lady Teshat, Thoth, Isis and others
with images, background study, and of course the stories for each character.
There are a series of "myth by image" links, and a heap of other good stuff.
More pages dedicated to other modern heroes can be found at:
The home page of Too-Much-Coffee Man, an epic modern hero.
Someone here thinks that dead guy, Superman, is a true Superhero.
The adulation here proves there's no need to be a nice guy to reach and
maintain hero-status. A page dedicated to John Wayne (of course!).
And of course the Greatest Modern American Hero of them all can be found at
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